Lotus Blue's banana blossom and mango salad tasted especially good on such a warm day. (Alas, the sun was so bright I couldn't tell that the photo was out of focus.)

The Marc Forgione team hard at work plating a tasty fluke dish.

Bruce Cost Ginger Ale—made with fresh ginger and unfiltered—hit the spot. The staffer said it's available at Whole Foods; I may have to pick some up.

One attendee planning her attack.

Landmarc's pretty beet salad.

It was definitely the Year of the Meatball. A standout: Terroir Tribeca's meatball sandwich. (I need to know where the bread is from.) And it was a far better value than Locanda Verde's otherwise worthy single duck meatball. UPDATE: The bread is stecca from Sullivan Street Bakery.

Cosmopolitan Café's creperie was one of the busiest stalls.

Hi, Rocco of ROC!

Mehtaphor won style and practicality points for serving its dumplings in takeout containers.

Paul Shapiro's Ribs and Brisket Revue (sponsored by City Winery) was really good.

I kept running into this dog, who doesn't need to have dinner tonight (based on the amount of hoovering I saw him do.)

Hi, Rachel from Tribeca Treats!

I heard at least three people raving about Bouley's dessert.

Here’s looking forward to next year’s event! I already have a resolution ready: Not to get so excited to dig in that I forget to grab a napkin. It happened time after time….

MAY 23–SEPTEMBER 4
“The Clocktower Gallery presents Nervescape, a site-specific exhibition by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter, on view to the public from May 23 to September 4, 2012. Shoplifter’s sculptures, drawings and installations explore themes of vanity, beauty, and beastly mythology, as well as notions of obsession and fetish. In the Clocktower’s Upper Gallery, Shoplifter makes use of a large existing metal structure as the skeleton for an organic, enveloping installation that is both a landscape and a beast, activating the space and engulfing the viewer in its cavernous entrails.”

THROUGH LABOR DAY
“On the heels of its successful Made in New York exhibition, the South Street Seaport Museum will open Made in New York II on May 16. Like its predecessor, the new exhibition will highlight contemporary counterparts to the productive industries that once populated the Seaport district.”

JUNE 3
“On Sunday, June 3 at 2:45 p.m., a special screening of Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar nominated Best Foreign Language Film, In Darkness (Poland, 2011, 114 min.), will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. A discussion with Krystyna Chiger Keren, the last living member of the group dramatized in the film, will follow the screening.”

JUNE 8–JULY 7
“Hionas Gallery is pleased to present Microphone Check, a multi-media exhibition comprised of new sculpture, mixed media collage, and abstract paintings by Karlos Cárcamo. For this show the artist introduces the union of seemingly disparate forms, joining hard edge painting and graffiti tagging, sculptures that mimic the gestural three-dimensional movement of spray paint, and the constructed nature of city landscapes vs. hard edge abstraction.”

JUNE 9–17
The ARChive of Contemporary Music‘s Surfin’ Summer Record & CD sale is at 54 White St. every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

AUGUST 5–6
Cowboy Junkies play City Winery. I bought my tickets already. Last time, I sat next to a woman who insisted on talking during my favorite song—even after I told her it was my favorite song! (This is the song; the fan-made Sims video is priceless.)

AUGUST 8, 21, 29; SEPTEMBER 5
Joan Osborne plays City Winery.

AUGUST 25–26
Taj Mahal play City Winery.

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THROUGH JUNE 2
“Is Schuster returns to her digital roots in her current exhibit, Manifestations, on display at One Art Space in Tribeca from May 11th through June 2nd. Each colorful canvas features vibrant, complex and glowing elaborations of ancient symbols, calling forth living energies and invoking powerful manifestations of humanity’s deepest hopes and dreams. A member of MIT’s pioneering Architecture Machine Group in the 1970’s, Is Schuster was the first artist to exhibit digital art in New York City.”

THROUGH JUNE 13
Eckart Hahn’s “Ancient Light” at Pablo’s Birthday.

MAY 16–JUNE 3
FB Gallery is proud to present Prince Michael’s Neverland: The Measure of an Artist. Michael Anthony Pegues, a fixture of the downtown art scene and true NY icon has finally found a home at FB gallery to present his vision. His constant quest for recognition, almost an obsession, has led him to constantly produce artworks where his image takes center stage.

MAY 17–JUNE 23
“Kansas is pleased to present Incidental Western, a solo exhibition of new work by Michael Berryhill. Michael Berryhill’s studio practice is an intensive exploration of temporal production and the impossibility of painting. His recent paintings, sculptures and works on paper are informed by accident and recovery; an attempt to invent his way into meaningful mystery.”

MAY 18–19
“Apexart invites visitors to exchange pictures from their lives with selections from the photo archive of Brooklyn artist Kambui Olujimi. Come with an image of any size, medium, style, and subject and leave with a photo of your choice. For those unable to bring pictures to the event, there will be limited facilities for on-site printing. A Life in Pictures blurs the lines of biographical authorship in a world moving towards dematerializing means of communication, allowing guests to interject moments from their own lives into this larger life in pictures. Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Parents, give your kids their first exhibition opportunity! Bring your kids and family photos to contribute to the photo archive.”

JUNE 2
Chely Wright at City Winery.

JUNE 15–17
Mark Nizer’s Expect the Impossible at Canal Park Playhouse: “Outrageous comedy antics and wild juggling adventures are in store for Canal Park Playhouse! Using lasers, robots, and extreme 3D juggling, Mark Nizer transforms impossible feats into an awe-inspiring theatrical event. Mark Nizer astounds audiences with his show-stopping tricks mixed with cutting edge technology. 3D glasses will be available.”

JULY 11–13
“Woodyfest” concerts of Woody Guthrie songs at City Winery, with performers such as Billy Bragg, Tim Robbins, and Rachael Yamagata.

AUGUST 9
The BoDeans at City Winery.

THROUGH JUNE 2

MAY 6
“Clocktower Gallery opens for a rare Sunday night special with galleries, studios, long term exhibits, tower, radio and special performances on view. 6-9 pm. Free. RSVP. events@artonair.org. Bring a photo ID. 108 Leonard Street at Broadway, 13th Floor. [...] End the night at an afterparty at Santos Party House just down the block. This whole effort is produced as part of Frieze New York: Downtown Night.” Afterparty is one of those words that doesn’t thrill me quite the way it used to….

MAY 6
“The Vendy Awards and New Amsterdam Market present New York’s very first sustainable street meat event. Join us as we invite five of the Vendy’s most beloved vendors—Solber Pupusas, Guadalupe’s Tamales, Eggstravaganza, A-Pou’s Taste and Veronica’s Kitchen—to use humanely raised meats and other regionally sourced ingredients to reproduce their most iconic dishes. Purchase your ticket in advance to guarantee a hefty tasting portion from each of the five vendors. Early Bird ticket holders will get a head start on the crowd, beginning at 11:30 a.m. The regular market will take place from 11 a.m. through 4 p.m. Also on Sunday: the first monthly visit from the Bent Spoon.”

MAY 8–JUNE 16
“Enshrouded,” work by Lin Yan at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery (opening reception May 16, 5–8 p.m.)

MAY 12
Celebrate spring with Friends of Duane Park and Friends of Bogardus Garden, with petting zoo, planting, Brazilian music, stilt-walkers, cookie decorating, and more. 10 a.m.–noon.

MAY 15–24
At Bogardus Mansion: “The exhibition titled ‘Untamed’ marks the New York solo debut for artist Suzanne LaFleur. On view for the first time will be 13 new artworks that include large-scale oil paintings along with pastel drawings.”

MAY 15–26
“The New York Academy of Art presents the 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition, a group show featuring original paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints by more than 50 talented emerging artists.”

MAY 16
At Duane Park restaurant: “Join Dandy Wellington and His Band at 8:30 p.m. as they bring you a full serving of well-dressed Jazz from the 1930’s and 40’s in Manhattan Serenade. A native of Harlem, Dandy Wellington has assembled a catalog of music that invokes an atmosphere of class. Burlesque performances by Peekaboo Pointe and Stormy Leather.”

MAY 23
At Duane Park restaurant: “‘What’s Going On,’ an evening of music inspired by the sounds of Motown. Host Aaron Marcellus got his musical start at age three singing in talent shows at his local nursery school. He grew up in a musical family rooted in the traditional black gospel church where he attributes his soulful sound. Aaron is also a contestant in this season’s ‘American Idol’ and an accomplished tap dancer. Burlesque performances by Essence Revealed and Peekaboo Pointe and a tap dance by Aaron.”

MAY 24–JULY 5
“Masters & Pelavin is proud to present ‘Silence,’ a group exhibition of international artists, curated by Estonian artist and curator Jaanika Peerna. A variety of media will be shown—video, sculpture, painting, photography and installation—a number of artists represented, including: Peter Baumann, Anne Lindberg, Janine Magelsen, Kazumi Tanaka, Thomas Fougeirol, Kaido Ole, Jaan Toomik, Jaanika Peerna and Krista Mölder.”

JULY 29–30
Ladysmith Black Mambazo play City Winery.

MAY 9–JUNE 9
“Iconicity” at Cheryl Hazan: James Verbicky collages strips of retro and contemporary advertising logos from magazines and newspapers with resin to form a textured plateau of text and color. His glossy paintings are reminiscent of both vintage advertising memorabilia and the work of Jacques de la Villeglé, the French artist who collages torn street posters onto canvas. In his process of ‘binding fragments of vintage media to one another’ he double-exposes language and image.” Pictured at top: “Diffuse 10.”

JUNE 4
Shawn Colvin plays her new album at City Winery.

JUNE 6–30
At Soho Photo: “June’s guest artist is Rick Odell, whose exhibition is entitled ‘My Better Half. Odell explains that each of the 23 images in his show is a double portrait that appears at first to represent a male and female couple. However, the pictures are, in fact, digitally manipulated composites of two photographs of the same subject—one of a man in drag persona masquerading as a woman and one of that same man with masculine attire and grooming. In images with more than two figures, each romantic pair is a single man cast in both gender roles.” Also: Exhibitions by Martin Frank, David Miller, Norman Borden, Susan Keiser.

By Mark Ruwedel

JUNE 6–JULY 28
At Apexart: “July 1 is the sesquicentennial of the Pacific Railway Act, the federal legislation that enabled the development of the first transcontinental railroads. ['The Permanent Way'] marks the occasion by bringing together American landscape photographs by living artists with archival material charting the expansion of railroads during the second half of the nineteenth century.”

JUNE 9, JULY 3, AUGUST 7
Howie Day plays City Winery.

APRIL 23

APRIL 26–SEPTEMBER 4
“Mad About Art + Design,” a juried show, is at the McNeill Art Group Tribeca Project Space, with an open house on Saturday, May 5, and Sunday, May 6, from 11 a.m.–5 p.m.” (Pictured at top: A grid of work by participating artists.)

APRIL 27
As part of the Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour (Apr. 27–30), the New York Academy of Art is opening its MFA students’ studios from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.—it’s sort of like the recent Tribeca Ball, but without the celebrities, booze, and fashion.

MAY 1
“Occupy: The Next Steps, A Teach-in at Trinity Wall Street Featuring Author Joyce Carol Oates, Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, Professor James W. Jones, Historian Blanche Wiesen Cook, Journalist James Carroll, The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones and The Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper. When Occupy Wall Street began in Lower Manhattan last September, no one could have foreseen that it would spark analogous movements throughout the country, in much of Europe, and elsewhere in the world. Occupy is no longer a piece of real estate, but a moral space in the political landscape. It is, perhaps, the most important social movement since the Civil Rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 60s.” I wonder. “On Tuesday, May 1 from 2-5 p.m., Trinity Wall Street will hold a teach-in—part conference, part spiritual renewal, and part rally—at Trinity Church (Broadway at Wall Street), and tread into this moral terrain. Over three hours, a series of brief talks/sermons/exhortations and musical interludes will seek to inspire and offer leadership ideas for the future of the Occupy movement.”

THROUGH MAY 27
The New Play Festival at the Flea: The Electric Lighthouse, The Wundelsteipen, and A Letter from Omdurman.

JULY 1–2
Johnny Clegg plays City Winery.

JULY 22-23
Kenny Loggins plays City Winery.

APRIL 17
Pianist and vocalist Dan Orlando and saxophonist Chelsea Baratz play Duane Park restaurant.

APRIL 17
“Senior New Yorker Drama Critic John Lahr joins playwright David Ives, currently represented on Broadway with Venus in Fur, for a lively conversation at 92YTribeca on the art of creating new works for the stage.”

APRIL 19–MAY 3
Sculptures—or maybe assemblages is a better word?—by Clemens Kois are at Mondo Cane.

APRIL 21
The Visionaire is throwing its annual Earth Day party (11 a.m.–4 p.m.) and everyone is welcome: “The day will be complete with a rooftop barbeque by Battery Place Market; kids’ activities led by Whole Foods and others; giveaways, raffles and speakers from popular NYC companies; and much more, including a dynamic display of art from ‘Rebuilding,’ Marcus Robin’s on-going project to memorialize the redevelopment of the World Trade Center.”

APRIL 27–30
The annual Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour. It’s free, and there’s a list of participating artists online (or you can grab a print copy at various locations around the neighborhood). Below: A work by Bill Bateman.

APRIL 27
At 92YTribeca: “Legends of women transforming into cats (and vice versa) recur with startling frequency throughout film and literature, strangely informing our perceptions about both cats and women. Armed with film clips and comedic insights, Meet The Lady host Tom Blunt leads an expedition into the dark heart of these portrayals, rounding up a entertainers and special guests along the way to offer their own unique spin on the subject.”

THROUGH MAY 4
Part three of a three-part exhibit of Skowhegan alumni is at 92YTribeca: “The third installment will feature ‘Hum’ by David Hardy; ‘Fragmented–wall 3′ by Sophia Ainslie; ‘Da-sein No. 3′ and ‘Da-sein No. 4′ by Eun Woo Cho; ‘An eye for an eye’ by Ann Oren; and ‘They change position frequently and their cause is not completely understood’ by Amy Pryor.” (That last one may or may not be about the limes at Whole Foods.) In the meantime, you can see “Flare (or 8,000 feet of duct tape)” by Mary Carter Taub (pictured).

MAY 4
At BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center: “Art of the Stand-Up Comic” featuring “five gut-busting comedians: Carole Montgomery, Jim Mendrinos, Brian Scott McFadden, Liz Miele and Lori Sommer.”

MAY 11
At 92YTribeca: “In 2007, Seamus Mullen was one of the most promising chefs in New York, known for his approachable, modern Spanish cuisine at Boqueria. But one day, he experienced excruciating pain and discovered he had rheumatoid arthritis. He quickly changed his diet to ‘hero foods’ which had anti-inflammatory effects and were able to boost his immune system and amplify his health. Hear his amazing story and his recipe for good health. Mullen opened Boqueria in 2006 and his new restaurant, Tertulia, has garnered raves. His first cookbook—Hero Foods—will be published in April.”

MAY 15
At 92YTribeca: “Prune chef/owner Gabrielle Hamilton talks about her journey from the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; to the kitchens of France, Greece and Turkey, where she learned the essence of hospitality; to the soulless catering factories that helped pay the rent; and ultimately, to her own kitchen at Prune. Hamilton, the author of Blood, Bones & Butter, talks to Mike Colameco.”

JULY 6, 14, 20, 27
“Rock and roll icon Ronnie Spector has announced the New York City debut of Beyond The Beehive, the theatrical production depicting her life story in monologue, images and song at the City Winery, July 6, 14, 20 and 27.  The 90-minute multi-media production of Beyond The Beehive will chronicle Ronnie’s fascinating 50-year journey through Rock and Roll with stories, video and still images, as well as upwards of ten live songs backed by her full band.”

APRIL 12
From Atria Books: “What happens when you take four authors from three countries and put them on a bus to visit 12 cities in 8 days? Sounds almost like a literary reality show.” Or like the driver is going to die under suspicious circumstances…. “Atria’s Great Mystery Bus Tour will kick off on Thursday, April 12 at the Mysterious Bookshop on Warren Street in Tribeca at 6:30pm. Stop by and say hello to John Connolly, William Kent Krueger, Liza Marklund, and M.J Rose who will be talking about their books and signing copies.” Want to win a complete set of books by the authors appearing? Be one of the first five people to DM @paulieolsewski on Twitter.

APRIL 12–MAY 14
“Kevin McDermott: Portraits and Landscapes” at Steven Amedee Gallery. Left: Chad.

APRIL 13–JUNE 23
At Art in General: “In Rob Carter’s solo exhibition ‘Faith in A Seed,’ miniature replicas of three 19th Century estates—Charles Darwin’s Down House, Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden, and Sir John Bennet Lawes’ Rothamsted Manor—will slowly disappear, overtaken by the gardens in which they reside. The transformation will occur over the course of the five-week exhibition.”

OPENING APRIL 19
At Frontrunner Gallery: “The ChiBeCa Project [by Leah Overstreet] is a portrait series documenting twenty residents, predominantly artists and small business owners, living and working on the edge of lower Manhattan. Framed by Chinatown to the east and Tribeca to the west, the neighborhood deserves its own name: ChiBeCa. For decades participants in the arts community have inhabited ChiBeCa, one of the few areas where one can still afford a studio. This unique pocket in Manhattan reflects intermingling cultures, dedicated artistic practice, and diverse definitions of ‘making it’ in New York City.”

APRIL 20–MAY 12
“Canal Park Playhouse is thrilled to present the New York premiere of Help! Help! I Know This Title Is Long But Somebody Is Trying to Kill Me, created by and featuring Drew Richardson, with direction by Avner the Eccentric: The performers of a vaudeville variety show have been murdered–except for Drew the Dramatic Fool! Unfortunately for him, the show must go on, or he’s next. Drew attempts every act in the show, from juggling 36 balls to sawing a woman in half, in this comical examination of fears–fear of performing, fear of failure, and fear of death.” There’s a related show on at the same time called Drew the Dramatic Fool.

MAY 1–JUNE 22
Two exhibits at RH Gallery. One is “‘On Air,’ the first New York solo exhibition by Soledad Arias. Arias’ text-based work explores the slippage of meanings in the aesthetic and literary reading of texts.” The other is a group show called “Text in Progress” and it includes Stephen Andrews, Joanne Cheung, Anne-Lise Coste, Jeff Elrod, León Ferrari, Joe Hardesty, Robert Kinmont, Stephanie Lempert, Micah Lexier, Ken Nicol and Qui Zhijie. This exhibition aims to explore text-based art practices which employ language to visually consider the process of conceptualizing ideas while also presenting a pictorial investigation of language itself.”

THROUGH MAY 5
At Pablo’s Birthday: “Artists Gero & Rees have developed a Tactical Play Exchange strategy to co-create a series of artworks over the past year. These works are forms that generally begin with contextual architectural elements derived from the site of exhibition, for example, the floor plan of the gallery, or other localized features. These become the core structures or null objects that will be added to, morphed and modified in multiple iterations using 3D modeling software and physical intervention. The digital files are passed back and forth between Gero & Rees creating a networked ‘ground of play’ that will extend itself, as adaptive potentiation, finally resulting in objects that are extensive transitive structures.”

MAY 8
Pen Parentis presents three authors who have won coveted prizes in short fiction: Josh Rolnick, whose collection Pulp and Paper won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, Christine Schutt, whose short fiction won the O. Henry, Pushcart and Mississippi Review prizes, and whose novels have been shortlisted for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer, and a return appearance by Pen Parentis favorite Anna Solomon, whose short fiction has won the Pushcart Prize twice.

MAY 9
“Chutzpah Fest” (comedy) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

MAY 13
Food personalities Gail Simmons, Melissa Clark (love her writing in the NYT!), and Alan Richman will be at the Museum of Jewish Heritage to discuss “Jewish foods, home cooking, and the influence of their own mothers in forming their culinary memories.”

MAY 15–19
“Seats of Fancy” at RH Gallery: “The exhibition will feature unique and limited edition stools and chairs by Fredrik Färg, Harry and Camila Studio and Katrina Vonnegut, each made by the designers with unique processes. Färg’s stools from his ‘Succession’ series are constructed with leather, wrapped in rope and baked in the oven; Vonnegut hand-knits her unique chairs and ottomans while Harry and Camila Studio’s Dr. Bubbles on the Rocks is a sculptural chair cast in aluminum inspired by volcanoes.”

THROUGH MAY 22
“Canal Park Playhouse is thrilled to announce the extension of ‘House of Ghostly Haunts,’ the weekly Spook Show created and performed by Cardone the Magician. Ghostly, ghastly fun is haunting Canal Park Playhouse as vaudeville magician Cardone takes the stage on Tuesday nights. Guillotines are dropped, razors are swallowed, and spirits are conjured in a spellbinding celebration of the strange, macabre and the fantastical. While ‘House of Ghostly Haunts’ is family-friendly, no one under age 7 is permitted. The show ends in 10 minutes of complete darkness.”

MAY 24–NOVEMBER 30
“Common Ground,” an exhibit from the Public Art Fund at City Hall Park: “Traditional public monuments and statues had a clear civic purpose, many having been commissioned to commemorate an important event, notable individual, or significant group. The artists featured in this show—Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roger Hiorns, Jenny Holzer, Matthew Day Jackson, Justin Matherly, Paul McCarthy, Amalia Pica, and Thomas Schütte—have taken this tradition of civic sculpture and expanded upon it. Developing a new civic dialogue, the show explores the reappropriation of iconography from classical sculpture; engagement with themes of the individual and society; incorporation of language, symbolism, and metaphor; and the use of non-traditional materials and performance, among other themes.”

MAY 25
92YTribeca is screening Cabin Boy, including a Q&A with Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick.

JUNE 27–JULY 25
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is screening Mel Brooks films on Wednesday nights: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, and To Be or Not to Be.

JULY 17
Sam Moore is at City Winery.

JULY 26
Marshall Crenshaw is at City Winery.

THROUGH APRIL 14
“Karnal,” a joint exhibit by (former pro wrestler) Phillip Thies and Uccello, is at Tachi Gallery.

THROUGH MID-JULY
“News Paper Spires” at the Skyscraper Museum: “The first chapters in New York’s high-rise history were written in the 1870s through the early 1900s when the city’s great newspapers—the Times, Tribune, and World, among others—erected tall towers as signature headquarters. [...] The modernity of these towers lay not in their ornate facades or structural design, but in the advanced technology of their building systems, state-of-the-art presses, and typesetting machinery. [...] This exhibition celebrates paper, the substrate of history. Photographs, architectural drawings, books, magazines, and crumbling pages of newsprint are in most cases the only surviving records of the monumental tower factories of the great metropolitan dailies—many of which themselves are now long vanished. Paper Spires attempts to create a collage of this lost or fading world.”

MARCH 22
Marketa Irglova (Once, The Swell Season) plays 92YTribeca.

APRIL 5–MAY 19
“The World We Have Lost” by Thomas Lail is at Masters & Pelavin: “In his new exhibition, titled after the pathbreaking and highly-popular publication of Peter Laslett, Lail continues to examine history and political thought through a series of works centered on Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map—a projection of a world map onto the surface of a polyhedron. [...] Variations of Fuller’s Dymaxion Map are directly depicted in each of Lail’s xerography paintings and works on paper, which are created from fragments of distorted reproductions of communes, ‘drop cities,’ High Modernist housing projects, Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’ and Courbet’s ‘Burial at Ornans.’”

APRIL 10
“Sing Me a Song of Jazz: New Discoveries” at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center: “Just in the last few years a treasure trove of video has appeared with great performances by jazz singers. Some of this footage takes us back to early cinema and old concerts, but much of it is recent. This program includes memorable footage of Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Jane Monheit, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams and Anita O’Day.”

JUNE 22–23
John Waters (yes, that John Waters) is bringing his one-man show to City Winery. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “At first I thought he was walking his dog—then I realized it was his date!”

MARCH 27
World Financial Center has a free screening of acclaimed documentary Being Elmo.

MARCH 28
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan is being screened for free at the World Financial Center.

APRIL 1–5
Citizen Cope is playing City Winery.

APRIL 7–29
The Lonely Phone Booth is at Manhattan Children’s Theatre. Maybe it can hook up with the pay phone at Duane and Church because if the high-pitched tone coming out of it for a week is any indication, that phone is hot and bothered.

APRIL 18–JUNE 29
“Skyline Sentinels: New York Water Towers,” photographs by Jeremy G. Landau, at Warburg Realty.